Nele De Block is Belgian and studied Textile Design at ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels. She develops her passion and technical skills for weaving at first as a textile designer for automotive. She then becomes Art Director for BETET SKARA: (Antwerp, 1999-2007) originally created as a social integration program for political Assyrian refugees. In this weaving studio she conducts the process of woven prototyping and production for fashion designers, artists and architects such as Haider Ackermann, Christian Wynants, Bruno Pieters, Stijn Helsen, Tim Van Steenbergen, Bernhard Willhelm, Dries Van Noten and Peter Pilotto.

Simultaneous she teaches Textile Design at Saint Lucas Art School Ghent and is trend forecaster for the Textile Industry.

In 2010 she moves to Portugal on the search for new design influences and meets with one of the last remaining traditional wool producers of the Serra da Estrela mountain region.